Experience

Opera Lafayette

• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Lead

  • Mar 2017 - Present

• Movement Director, Educator

  • Apr 2018 - Apr 2019



The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  The ten Fellows in the 2020-21 cohort were selected from an impressive pool of 190 applicants from more than 60 countries around the world, committed to addressing the most pressing issues of our time through the performing arts. This brilliant, courageous and visionary group of Fellows hail from four continents and a wide range of countries, including Vietnam, South Africa, Kenya, Russia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Egypt, the UK, and the United States. Taken together their work – as performers, writers, directors, producers, scholars, change-makers and leaders – could not be more diverse or expansive. But what excites us most is their appetite and generous energy toward being part of and contributing to a larger cohort, and to engaging deeply with a global network of artists. We look forward to the vital, innovative, and boundary-crossing work all of them are poised to do individually and as a powerful cohort. https://globallab.georgetown.edu/lab-fellows/ Show less



Mamaisamaker

• Founder, Director

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  An international artist residency in motherhood for people who make both children and art (Woman makes art. Woman makes child. Child makes mama. Mama makes art). Founded and directed by Emma Jaster. People participate from anywhere in the world, committing to make one art piece to post on instagram every Friday in response to a prompt from another member of the group. The response can be in any medium. It is an opportunity to explore and share an artistic practice from within the perspective and realities of parenting. We probe into questions of caretaking, partnership, gender roles, womanhood, but also branch out as the mood or the news strike: spaghetti and border control are totally fair game. Follow #mamaisamaker and @mamaisamaker Read Harnessing the Heroic Narrative of Motherhood by Stephanie Hayes on HowlRound. http://www.emmajaster.com/artist-residency-in-motherhood-1 Show less



Heartbeat Opera Company

• Movement Director / Associate Artist

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  From the drama at the core of each work, Heartbeat Opera grows vivid theatrical worlds through revelatory adaptations, radical rearrangements, and ingenious design. Through an inquisitive collaborative process with a diverse community of artists, we break down traditional barriers to reimagine opera for artists and audiences of the twenty-first century. Heartbeat Opera consists of an ever-growing, ever-deepening company of artists. Our Associate Artists are frequent collaborators who have played essential roles in defining our company and creating our body of work. We recognize their extraordinary contributions and commitment. Associate Artists do not necessarily work on every Heartbeat project, but they do take an ongoing, active interest in our growth. https://www.heartbeatopera.org Show less



Constellation Chor

• Movement Director / Orbiting Member

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  CONSTELLATION CHOR is a vocal performance ensemble comprising composers, singers, dancers and actors, and founded by music-theatre and interdisciplinary choral composer Marisa Michelson. The ensemble performs internationally and in New York City, and has expanded organically into the NYC new music community, most recently collaborating with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Founded in 2016, Constellation Chor improvises and performs interdisciplinary pieces composed by Michelson, as well as collaborating with other composers, choreographers, directors, and mindfulness practitioners. In residence at the historic Judson Memorial Church, the Chor engages at the intersection of voice, movement, healing, improvisation, meditation, storytelling, Oliveros’ Deep Listening, and music-theatre. Researching the interaction of mind/body/spirit practices with virtuosic singing, the Chor also explores performer as truth-seeker/shaman, and the performance as an invitation to enter into an intimate relationship with the moment and each other. Show less


Östra Grevie folkhögskola
• Sweden
• Education Administration Programs
• Guest Lecturer

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2019

Cornell Tech
• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Movement Researcher

  • Feb 2019 - Jun 2019

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Space Grantee

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018

Yale Divinity School
• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Guest Teacher

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2018

The Museum of Modern Art
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee
• Facilitator

  • Oct 2017 - Jan 2018

Revels, Inc.
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Performer

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Guest Teacher

  • 2015 - 2015

University of San Francisco
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Costume Designer

  • 2014 - 2015

The Cutting Ball Theater
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Choreographer and Performer

  • 2014 - 2015

Theatre Bay Area
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Research Coordinator

  • 2013 - 2015

San Francisco Friends School
• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Long Term Substitute Teacher

  • 2013 - 2015

IDEO
• United States
• Design Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Guest Artist

  • 2014 - 2014


The College Preparatory School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guest Teacher

  • 2014 - 2014

  Guest taught a week on french absurdist theater for a high school french class. Guest taught a week on french absurdist theater for a high school french class.



Round House Theatre

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Teaching Artist

  • May 2010 - Jul 2013

• Lead Teaching Artist

  • 2010 - 2013


Washington Revels
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Performer, Lead Teaching Artist

  • Oct 2010 - Apr 2013

Imagination Stage, Inc.
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Lead Teaching Artist

  • 2013 - 2013